There is a great new web development tool for Mac: Coda from Panic (the makers of Transmit). It runs on SubethaEdit’s core, and has a souped-up Transmit FTP engine. While I am a pretty big fan of CSSEdit, it has an excellent CSS app built-in as well. It also comes with some great books, and some junk I am not able to use well yet, like SSH terminal. But I am not fond of the live preview, and while I have heard great things about SubEthaEdit, it is not BBEdit. It does not support http/live preview (like BBEdit and CSSEdit), so it only does light client side page rendering. But Cabel says it should soon support that as well relatively soon. I think it is the best single replacement for Dreamweaver, if you are not a big fan. I think DW is a glitchy mess, though I use it all day long at work on a W2K machine. It is an all-in-one application for people that like to code by hand and post it with relative ease. There is a lot great about this. But it is not a complete replacement for BBEdit/Transmit/CSSEdit(/Safari/Firefox), as it stands. Though I would not mind if it is. I don’t know if it is worth the 70 bucks I paid yet, but I don’t doubt that it will be soon. I hope you’ll think about trying it.
I have heard some good things about TextMate, and would love to hear more about it. But for now, I am quite content with BBEdit.
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